FLOI – For The Love of It 2014

FLOI14 – Group photo!
Thanks everyone!
Particular thanks to St Peter’s School for their space,
Dave Wilcox for for looking after us so well
and Appetite for hosting us in Stoke

Busking Project and Keep Streets Alive Great presentation from Nick Broad of the Busking Project
We meet Jonny of Keep Street Alive and ASAP!
Stories of busking in Liverpool , York… and the nightmare, draconian new anti-busking laws in Camden, London.

FLOI’14 – starts tomorrow We’re off to Stoke on Trent, hosted by Appetite
FLOI’14, led by Chris Squire of Impossible Arts and by NASA we are looking forward to meeting up with 41 people – artists, companies, producers – who have booked in so far.
We’ll be posting on this page over the weekend

Congregate Speculate Invigorate

NASA UK AGM and general meeting

Accommodation option
at nearby North Stafford Hotel
30 special discount rooms available until 28th Jan
Shared room : £22.50 per person per night
Single room : £40 per nightnot including breakfast
£5 per person per night extra for full breakfast

Booking is by phone only 0871 222 0100 (10p per minute)
Quote Discount code: APNS2102
and you might have to mention “Appetite Stoke” too.

(Top Tip for avoiding mobile phone extras – 0871 charges! Call the North Stafford Hotel directly on their landline telephone number 01782 744477 and ask to make a reservation, the nice lad or lady will put you through to the booking line and you should select option 2. I just tested the discount code and its all ready to go).

Hotel webpage here http://www.britanniahotels.com/hotels/stafford/

Contribute!
Lead a session on outdoor arts topic you’re passionate about – practical or theoretical, debate or presentation
Suggest a topic or theme to explore
Show a performance piece. Do you have a new performance / work-in-progress / extract you’d like to share? You can ask for as much feed-back as you like
Develop ideas for a show

We cook, eat and cater together so we need
4 x cooks – all food provided, but we need to prepare 4 main meals
8 x assistants – to help the food preparation
many hands to help clean / help set up / wash-up / fetch & carry

For the Love Of It 2013 was great!

46 people attended (+ a few visitors). Food (thanks the chefs, especially Mary, Jeremy, Richard, Elenor and several others), workshops, discussions, presentations and a lovely wood-burner. Thanks to the College Project for hosting us – a special thanks to the Caretakers. See the Post FLOI’13 for photos and videos. We came, We Saw, We Loved It. Thanks Pete and Elenor at Pif-Paf and Chris at impossible arts for making it all happen again.